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 Some of the parishes of Québec and the counties to which they belong are in Répertoire toponymique du Québec (see [[Quebec Gazetteers]]). Information about parishes, which includes dates they were founded and their locations, is in: Magnan, Hormisdas. ''Dictionnaire historique et géographique des paroisses, missions et municipalités de la Province de Québec (Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Parishes . . .)''. Arthabaska, Québec, Canada: Imprimerie d'Arthabaska, 1925. (Family History Library {{FHL|971.4 E5m|disp=book 971.4 E5m; fiche 6016524–28.)}} Text in French. Indexes to civil copies of church records for the Island of Montréal and for the city of Québec are described in [[Quebec Civil Registration]]. Genealogical dictionaries based on Catholic church records are described in the "Genealogy" section. If an ancestor disappears from the parish registers, he may have gone into the fur trade. For information about fur trade records, see [[Quebec Business Records and Commerce]].
-=== Indexes to Catholic Marriage Records  ===
-Researchers studying French Canadian Catholic families normally use one of the following indexes to locate a marriage in church records.
-*[http://www.ancestry.ca/drouin/?o_iid=35859&o_lid=35859 Drouin Collection 1621-1967] at Ancestry.ca. This collection is divided into six databases:
-:#Quebec Vital and Church Records, 1621-1967
-:#Ontario French Catholic Church Records, 1747-1967
-:#Early U.S. French Catholic Church Records, 1695-1954
-:#Acadia French Catholic Church Records, 1670-1946
-:#Quebec Notarial Records, 1647-1942
-:#Miscellaneous French Records, 1651-1941.
-:For details about this six databases, see [[The Drouin Collection: Six Databases|The Drouin Collection: Six Databases]].
-*Loiselle, Antonin. ''Index to Many Marriages of the Province of Québec and Adjacent Areas''. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972. (On 174[https://familysearch.org/search/search/index/catalog-search#searchType=catalog&filtered=true&fed=false&collectionId=&catSearchType=film_number&searchCriteria=543721&placeName=&author_givenName=&author_surname= Family History Library] films beginning with film # 543721. This Loiselle Index lists more than a million marriages. It covers about 70 percent of Québec Catholic marriages to 1900, with a few as late as the 1960s. It also includes a few parishes outside Québec where there were large settlements of French Canadians, such as Madawaska County, New Brunswick, and Manchester, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire.
-*Loiselle, Antonin. ''Index alphabétique des mariages de certaines paroisses du Québec'' ''(Alphabetical Index to Marriages in Certain Parishes of Québec)''. Montréal, Québec, Canada: Ville de Montréal, 1988. [https://familysearch.org/catalog-search&catSearchType=film_number (Family History Library] film #s 1571024-74.) The text is in French. There is a supplement to the original Loiselle Index. It extends the original geographical coverage to the Montréal region, the Ottawa River Valley in both Québec and Ontario, and to a few parishes in western Canada.
-:The ''Loiselle Index'' and its supplement have two cards for each marriage—one for the husband and one for the wife. Each card lists the date and place of the marriage, the names of both spouses, and the names of both spouses' parents, or the name of the previous spouse. See [[Loiselle Marriage Index|Appendix A for instructions for using the Loiselle index and the Loiselle supplement]].
-*A smaller index than the Loiselle Collection is: Rivest, Lucien. ''Index to Marriages of Québec and Adjacent Areas 1670–1964''. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973. (On 41 [https://familysearch.org/search/search/index/catalog-search#searchType=catalog&filtered=true&fed=false&collectionId=&catSearchType=film_number&searchCriteria=933143&placeName=&author_givenName=&author_surname= Family History Library] films beginning with film 933143.&nbsp; It lists 230,000 Catholic marriages in 13 counties northwest and northeast of Montréal, alphabetical by the bride's maiden surname.&nbsp;
-*Other indexes of marriages are: ''Mariages de Québec (Marriages of Québec)''. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1984. (On 30[https://familysearch.org/search/search/index/catalog-search#searchType=catalog&filtered=true&fed=false&collectionId=&catSearchType=film_number&searchCriteria=1381846&placeName=&author_givenName=&author_surname= Family History Library]p films beginning with film # 1381846.) The text is in French. It is a small but important index. It lists Catholic marriages to 1970 in the Eastern Townships region southeast of Montréal. It is alphabetical by the groom's name.
-*''The Collection Fabien, National Archives of Canada series MG 25, G 231,'' includes Catholic marriages from 1657 to 1974 in counties surrounding Montréal (54 films) and both the Québec and Ontario sides of the Ottawa River Valley (25 films). The text is in French.
-:The Collection Fabien is not at the Family History Library. The microfilms can be borrowed from the National Archives of Canada through public and college libraries participating in the interlibrary loan system. A list of the film numbers can be obtained from the National Archives of Canada.
-*Information for many French Canadian Catholic marriages in Québec before 1930 is transcribed in: ''Répertoire alphabétique des mariages canadiens-français, 1760–1935''. (Longueuil, Québec, Canada: Service généalogique Claude Drouin, 1989–1991.) Also known as the Répertoire Drouin. Part One (49 volumes) lists marriages alphabetically by the husband's surname.
-:Part Two (65 volumes) lists marriages alphabetically by the bride's surname. It gives information similar to the information in the Loiselle Collection.
-:The [https://familysearch.org/catalog-search&catSearchType=film_number Family History Library] has a microfiche edition of the Répertoire Drouin.&nbsp; Part One begins with fiche 6202704.&nbsp; Part two begins with fiche 6203266. Each part contains two alphabetical listings. Since there is some overlap in the years covered by each listing, both listings should be consulted.
-:Copies are available at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa, at the Salle Gagnon of the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Montréal, and at a few other libraries. Marriage records of many parishes have been compiled and published. These compilations are available at branches of the Archives Nationales du Québec, the [http://familysearch.org/ Family History Library ]in Salt Lake City, and at many major libraries in Canada and northeastern and midwestern states.
-If a church marriage record cannot be found, look in the '''notarial records''' for a marriage contract. About two-thirds of the marriages before the mid-1800s had marriage contracts. See the "Notarial Records".
-Several genealogical dictionaries also have marriage information (see [[Quebec Genealogy]]). One of the most important is Cyprien [[Tanguay's Genealogical Dictionary|Tanguay's]], ''Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes (Genealogical Dictionary of French Canadian Families)''.
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